Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

1. Which is the venue of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) maiden Maritime Exercise 2022 (IMEX-22)?
[A] Vishakhapatnam
[B] Goa
[C] Pune
[D] Dehradun

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2. Shahi Litchi earned the GI tag from which Indian state?
[A] Bihar
[B] Uttar Pradesh
[C] Madhya Pradesh
[D] Uttarakhand

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3. The ‘Unbox Me campaign’, which was launched recently, is associated with which day?
[A] International Transgender Day of Visibility
[B] Zero Discrimination Day
[C] World Humanitarian Day
[D] International Day for People of African Descent

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4. Which Union Ministry issued an order to exempt certain types of genome edited crops from rules applicable on GM crops?
[A] Ministry of Commerce and Industry
[B] Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
[C] Ministry of Science and Technology
[D] Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

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5. Which Indian space tech start-up launched its first commercial satellite with SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket?
[A] Pixxel
[B] Agnikul
[C] Skyroot Aerospace
[D] Dhruva Space

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6. Which state-run company has partnered with L&T and ReNew Power, for a joint venture for Green hydrogen?
[A] ONGC
[B] IOC
[C] REC
[D] GAIL

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7. Which institution developed the ‘Positive Pay System (PPS)’ for cheque payment?
[A] National Payments Corporation of India
[B] Reserve Bank of India
[C] NITI Aayog
[D] Ministry of Finance

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8. When was the ‘Namami Gange Programme’ launched in India?
[A] 2010
[B] 2014
[C] 2018
[D] 2020

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9. Space Launch System (SLS) is a flagship rocket of which country?

 

[A] Russia
[B] India
[C] USA
[D] Israel

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10. Which country’s astronomers have detected HD1 Galaxy, the distant astronomical object ever discovered?
[A] India
[B] USA
[C] China
[D] Israel

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